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British Atoms. The Nobel Prize for physics went to Britain's Professor Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, 50. Blackett, like Tiselius, is less a theoretician than a master of physical technique. In 1924, he took the first photograph of the disintegration of an atomic nucleus. In 1929, he developed an electronic tripping device which made cosmic rays take their own pictures...
...start of World War II, Blackett became a key man in Britain's scientific war effort. He developed bombsights for the R.A.F. and antiaircraft techniques for the Battle of Britain, became one of Britain's chief contributors to the development of the atomic bomb...
Last year, Blackett advanced a new theory on the magnetic fields of revolving bodies, including the sun and stars (TIME, June 2, 1947). He is now working on radio astronomy with which he hopes to penetrate the Milky Way galaxy...
Donald Watson Blackett, Newtonville; Richard William Kislik, New York City; John Hood Ryther, Watertown; Jules Martin Weiss, Kew Gardens, N. Y.; George Austin Willenbrink, Louisville...
Said Professor Blackett modestly: "It is suggested tentatively that . . . the above equation represents some new and fundamental property of rotating matter. Perhaps this relation will provide the long-sought connection between electromagnetic and gravitational phenomena...